So, with Chromium you don't need to worry about "sending data" (you may want to adjust your privacy settings in the "under the hood" tab in options). The link Gusar posted should answer your questions (if you have more, feel free to post them here).

So, with Chromium you don't need to worry about "sending data" (you may want to adjust your privacy settings in the "under the hood" tab in options). The link Gusar posted should answer your questions (if you have more, feel free to post them here).

So, with Chromium you don't need to worry about "sending data" (you may want to adjust your privacy settings in the "under the hood" tab in options). The link Gusar posted should answer your questions (if you have more, feel free to post them here).

Even if you aren't using chrome/chromium, you are still being tracked online by a number of other sources -- the most obvious being your ISP. I'm hoping the FreedomBox takes off, since using Tor can be slow and painful at the moment.

Err, Chrome does not log your activity. Not more than any other browser anyway. The stuff that sends info to google (like search suggestions, something Firefox's searchbar does by default too) can be disabled in the options. Beyond that, the only way to not get tracked is not go online.

About Iron, phajdan.jr already covered that. I too am again and again amazed that people will just like that trust a random person on the internet.

isn't a lot open source software made by some random dude in their spare time? You trust those, so what so different about this? If it's open source I'm sure someone will check out his chrome patches before committing it to portage.

I like this one more since it actually has the diff between Chromium and Iron: Is Iron a Scam? Yes_________________“And even in authoritarian countries, information networks are helping people discover new facts and making governments more accountable.”– Hillary Clinton, Jan. 21, 2010

isn't a lot open source software made by some random dude in their spare time? You trust those, so what so different about this? If it's open source I'm sure someone will check out his chrome patches before committing it to portage.

Yeah, a few points to add:

1. The argument is more like "if you don't trust Google, why do you trust a random guy more?". Also, most open source projects release the source code, and the binary builds are mostly for convenience. In case of Iron, you're not only trusting any source modifications he's made, but also that the downloaded binary is really what he claims it is.

2. Chromium is a big codebase, with a lot of changes being made every day (about 100 in the browser itself, and another 100 in WebKit, the rendering engine - every day). It's much easier to verify a simple script some nice person wrote and shared on the internet, but verifying someone's modifications to such a big codebase is much harder. In my opinion it's better to focus on reviewing the Chromium code and looking for problems. In fact, that's what people are doing, see http://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/hall-of-fame.

3. The Iron guy makes it rather hard to review the changes (probably unintentionally). Last time I checked, the source code was compressed in a weird archive format stored on rapidshare, and the archive was split into multiple files. On the other hand, the Chromium project has a Subversion repository, making it much easier to get code diffs between releases. There is also a single tarball with all the sources generated regularly, on http://build.chromium.org/official/._________________http://phajdan-jr.blogspot.com/